Mike Farb of Unhack the Vote has been tweeting out graphs that purportedly show strange voting anomalies from the 2016 election. His reporting inspired Vote Sleuth,

We had been following @mikefarb1 with great interest on Twitter. He and a crowd-sourced team of crack data analysts have been finding some very interesting peculiarities in precinct-level election statistics from recent elections.

At some point @mikefarb1 posted a link to an article about a statistician’s denied request to audit Kansas voting machines based on some statistically anomalous results she had found when looking at precinct-level election returns vs. precinct size.

This led us to some extremely alarming papers by statisticians who have noticed odd-looking data when they tally precinct-level votes starting with the smallest precincts and moving to the largest.

We found this quite shocking. So we decided to investigate this ourselves.
This website is a record of our ongoing work.

I tend to be more skeptical about things I want to believe are true, because I don't like feeling foolish when it turns out I let myself be taken in. Also, I'm not at all qualified to assess these groups' claims about statistical results and their implications. But I would love to read the opinions of everyone more qualified than me to evaluate these analyses/claims. (Slarti? )

Newsweek has retracted its story about a conservative botnet effort to force the resignation of Senator Al Franken.

The initial report was based on research conducted by Unhack The Vote, a group examining outside influence in U.S. elections and politics. It alleged that a "decidedly alt-right" botnet "weaponized" anti-Franken stories and amplified pressure on Franken to resign after allegations of sexual misconduct. Newsweek was unable to independently verify their claims after a further review of their work.

Newsweek regrets the error.

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